CRIME: Adult Responsibility

In a Boise courtroom last week, five more men
were sentenced to prison in the city's shocking homosexual scandal
(TIME. Dec. 12) in which scores of boys were involved as victims. Joe
Moore, vice president of the Idaho First National Bank and a leading
citizen, got seven years, and four others drew terms ranging from six
months to ten years.

Dr. John L. Butler, chief of Idaho's Department of Mental Health, had
publicly opposed sentencing the homosexual adults to prison terms: "We
have to build up community supports for them," he said. "One
alternative might be to let them form...